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YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER.
REJtARKABLtt WKATHKIt SOMK 07
VliAllS A4O.
The Siorv of the I'henoMennl Weoiher Ihnl
Followed a Cold >j iliir In IHIG.
Daring a cold spring, liko that which
is just now drawing to au end, people
generally console themselves with tbo
reflection that tho sun will eventually
get tho victory, and that summer will
certainly come at last, though its coming
may be delayed. Uncertain as tho
weather is, the general features of the
seasons recur with a regularity which
warrants the confidence thus repeat'd in
the annual return of sect! time aud har
vest; hut thcro arc instancea on record
in which even the s 'asona seem to have
lost their characteristic features, as if
the ordinary laws of meteorology had
been temporarily suspended. A remark
able case of this kind, and one which the
long-continued eo. l weather of this
spring makes particularly interesting
just now, is that of the year 181(1, which
has been called "the year without n sum
mer.” A communication printed in the
Congrryalionalist gives the following
summary of the weather of this remark
aide year:
January and February were mild;
March was cold; April began warm, but
ended in snow and ice. lee formed an
inch thick iu Slav, and fields were
planted over and over again till it was
ton late to replant, June was the cold
est ever known in this latitude; frost and
ice were common. Almost every green
thing was killed; fruit nearly all de
stroyed. Snow fell to the depth of ten
inches in Vermont, seven in Maine, three
11 the interior of New York and also in
Massachusetts. There were a few warm
days. It was celled a dry season. But
little rain fell. Tho wind blew steadily
Imm the north, cold and fierce. Moth
ers knit extra socks and mittens for the
children in tho soring, and woodpiles
that usually di.wip|anrcd during tho
warm spell in front of the houses were
speedily built up again. Planting and
shivering ,cro done together, and the
farmers who worked out their taxes on
h i country null wire overcoats and
iiiitteus. In a town in Vermont a flock
of sheep belonging to a farmer had been
sent as usual to He ir pasture. On the
17th of Juno aln vy snow fell iu New
England. The col 1 was intense.
\ furniar w ho had a largo field of com
in Tewksbury, built fires around it at
night to ward off tile frost; many an
evening he and his neighbors took turns
watching them, lie was rewarded with
the only crop of corn in tho neighbor
hood. (lous'd r. 1!o damage was done
in New Orleans i:i consequence of the
rapid rise of the Mississippi Thver.
Fears were entei Iri.ied that the sun was
cooling off, and throughout New England
all picnios wore strictly prohibited.
July was accompanied with frost and
ice. Indian corn was nearly all de
stoyod; some favorably situated fields
escaped. August was more cheerless,
if possible, th.m the summer months
which preceded i f . fee was formed half
an inch in thickness. Indian corn was
so frozen that th ivat r part was cut
down and dried for fodder. Almost
every green thin;: was destroyed in this
country and in Eii ■ pe. On the 30th
snow fell at I! met, forty miles from
London. Vm tile corn ripened in
New England u i . the Middle States
Farmers supplied themselves from corn
produced in 1815 for seed in the spring
of 1817. It soil at from 81 to $5 i:r
bushel.
September furnished about two weeks
of the pleasantest weather of the season,
but in the latter part of the month ice
formed an inch thick. October had
more than its share of cold weather.
November was cold and snowy. Decem
ber was comfortable, and the winter fol
lowing was mild. Very little vegetation
was matured in the Eastern and Middl •
CHIU**, me suns rays seemed to la
destitute#%eat during the summer ; all
nature was clad in a sable hue ; and mei
exhibited no littlo anxiety concerning
the future of this life.
The average price of flour during the
year in the New York market was 813 per
barrel. The average price of wheat in
England was 37 shillings per quarter.
Bread riots occurred throughout Gnat
Britain iu 1817, in consequence of the
high price of the staff of life.
A Terrible Experience.
A bridal night experience almost sur
passing in tragic horror that of tho bride
of Lnmmermor, which Scott said was
"an ower true tale,” is reported from
Rio Grande del Hur, near the Uruguay
frontier. A young farmer’s marriage
was postponed on account of his being
hi! ten by a dog. The wound was cau
terized, and all went well. Three months
later doctors declared all danger over.
The marriage took place. A supper
followed, and at supper the bridegroom
was noticed to fall into gloomy abstrac
tion. After supper camo dancing, and
when the ball was at its height the bride
and bridegroom withdrew. About an
hour later piercing screams came from
the bridal chamber. Tho door was burst
open. On the floor lay the bride, still
alive, but torn as though by a wild beast
The bridegroom, covered with blood and
foaming at the mouth, cowered hi a cor
ner, but in a moment sprang upon one
of the men, when a brother of the bride
sent a bullet through his brain.
The Nihilists. A correspondent
writes that the declaration made by the
accused at the recent Nihilist trials may
be thus summed up: “It is a grave erroi
to regard us as mere anarchists, or nihi
lists, without a political platform, and
with no other aim than to Rill and de
sirov. It is not so at all. We are mon
archists, hut we desire a constitutional
monarchy, not a despotism. We ask
ourselves hv what right are we forbidden
to think and speak freely; by what right
docs despotism reign in Russia ? It has
HO right sayg the right oi might.’
(tljc (Dnjcttc.
VOL. X
NEVER THE TIME AND THE PLACE
Never the time amt the place
And (lie loved one all together!
This path - how soft to pave !
This May—wbat magic weather!
Where is the loved one’s face?
In a dream, that loved one’s face meets mine.
But the house is narrow, tho place is bleak
Where, outside, rain and wind combine.
With a furtive ear. if I strive to speak,
With a hostile eye at my flushing cheek,
With a malice that maska each word, each sign !
O, enemy sly and serpentine,
Uncoil thee from t lie waking man!
Bo I behold tho past
Tims Arm and fast,
Vet doubt if the future hold I can?
This path, so soft to pace, shall lead
Thro’ the magic of May to herself indeed f
Or narrow if needs tic house must be,
Outside are the storm and strangers ; we—
Oh. close, safe, warm, sleep I and she,
—I and she. Bbowkixo.
DID HE LOVE HER ?
Georgette was horn with a silver spoon
iu her mouth; indeed, if I mistake not,
it wns a gold spoon, richly encrusted
with jewels and hearing in its bowl a
monstrous lump of good fortune.
In the first place, she was one of the
loveliest girls I ever saw, both in stall and
laxly. Her beauty was of a dark, mag
nificent type, which suggested to me the
diminutive name of “Jet,” by which 1
always called her.
She was barely twenty, and heiress—it
fairly takes my breath away to write it
heiress to JCOO,OOO, li ft her by her
uncle, a German of high rank, hut sin
gularly destitute of kindred.
Georgette's mother hod 1 wen an Ameri
can girl who had mot young Rudolph
Schubert during a summer tour in the
Rhineland.
They had married against tho wishes
of Rudolph's family, who were greatly
shocked at w hat they regarded as a /)<:-
■.aUinnt r. It was only after the lapse of
years, when death seemed striving to ex
terminate tlie Schuberts, that the old
Herr Uncle, as lie was railed, opened his
heart to the orphan child of his dead
brother.
Georgette had lieen horn in the United
States, anil she was an American to the
heart's core. I remember having thought
-that afternoon when we sat out on the
lawn together under the pink awning—
that there wasn’t the slightest trace of
her father’s nationality about her.
She was sitting in a camp-chair with a
bit of delicate embroidery in her hands.
There was a table near by on which
high tea” was to be served when Ralph
Dealing and his mother arrived. Jet
had invited them; hut I should have
known they were coming if she had not
told me, for when did her eyes ever
shine so brightly, or when were her
cheeks so rich a crimson, as when this
penniless barrister was near at hand?
Yes, Georgette was in love with him ;
I saw it very plainly, and it male mo
uneasy. If I had only lx-en sure of
Ralph Dealing it wouldn’t have bothered
me an instant. But though it seemed
most unlikely that lie should not love
her, I was haunted by a mortal fear that
her money had something to do with his
devotion.
Loving Jet, as only a solitary old maid
knows how to love, it was torture to me
to think of my darling as the victim to
the grovelling passion of a mercenary
man. I had never hinted to her the
drift of my thoughts, but I had made up
my mind to do so, and I tried it that
afternoon. Jet opened the way for me,
just as though she had known what I
meant to say.
“ Emily,” she said, “what would you
say if I were to get married ? ”
“ God bless you,” I an overed prompt
ly. “That is, of course, provided the
match was all that it should he.”
“ What—what doyoti—think of Ralph
Dealing?"
She was I lending low over her work,
hut I saw that she was blushing.
“Are you going to marry him, Jet?”
I asked quickly.
“No—o— that is—l don’t know. To
tell the truth, he hasn’t asked me. But
I thinks he means to."
“Of course. ’’
“If he were to, what would you do
about it?”
“I looked up in ouprise, for I knew
that she loved him with her whole
generous soul.
“I think I would try to find out his
motive,” I said bluntly.
“He loves me—at least he has told
me so,” she answered softly. “And—
and I think I can trust him !”
“He told you he loved you, and yet
went no further !” 1 cried. “That was
unmanly, Jet; I hope you did not listen
to him.”
She blushed still more deeply.
"He would ask me if he dared,” she
said, defending him not only by words
but by expression. "But he—he thinks
—I know he feels there is a difference
in our positions.”
“Decidedly,” I said laconically, for
what she had told me gave me a very
unfortunate impression.
“Ho is very proud and sensitive,”
she added, and would have said more,
but I took her hand aud spoke to her
with great gravity.
“Jet,” I said tenderly, “you know
that I have no other wish than to see
you happy. Forgive me, then, if what I
say wounds you, but I cannot help feel
ing that Ralph Hearing may have
thought quite as much of your fortune
a of yourself.” ,
“Do you know,” she Baid, with a little
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 11. IBBR.
catch in her breath, “that has troubled
me, too. It would kill me if I wore to
find it out."
“No.” I answered; "not unless you
found it out too late to avert the conse
quences.”
"But I could not give him up," she
cried. “I wish I were poor, then I
would know whether ho loved me for
myself.”
The tours started in her eyes, and her
red lips quivered.
“Hush!" I said warniugly. "They
are coming—Mr. Hearing and his moth
er, Jet.”
Blie regained her composure iu au iu
slant. When she gave her hand to Ralph
her face was wreathed in tmiles.
He looked so handsome that afternoon
that I would have given anything to
have been able to trust him.
Within the sound of his musical
voice some of my doubts did vanish and,
knowing that he had to go away on the
morrow, f had the grace to beguile his
mother indoors, while he and Jet went
down to tho lake after water-lilies—
at least that is what they said they wore
going for.
“I can hardly realize that I am going
away to-morrow," he said, with au
audible tremor in his voice. “I wish
there was no occasion for me to do so.
I suppose it’s an old story to you, Miss
Georgette, to hear a man say that he
would like to spend his life iu your
society?”
“I have heard it before,” she said
slowly; “hut I have not believed it
always."
His face flushed for an instant, and
ho made a sudden gesture, hut he hit
his lip a moment after and turned his
head away.
“You know that I lovo you,” ho said,
in a low tone. “When Igo away to
morrow, I will leave all my happiness
behind me.”
“One never knows when tolielieveyou
men,” Georgette said with affected care
lessness.
“ I suppose it doesn’t make much dif
ference whether you believe us or not,”
he answered in a piqued tone.
- “ Excuse mo,” she said quickly, “ but
it makes all the difference iu the world to
me—more difference, infinitely more
than it evor could make to another wo
man.”
“ How?”
Bhe paused a moment.
“My position is so peculiar,” slio said
presently. “If I accepted in good faith
any protestations that might he made to
me, I would ho called upon to subject
them to a trying ordeal—-a test of sin
cerity perhaps stronger than they could
Ix'iir. ”
“ You may”
“ As for you, Mr. Hearing,” she inter
rupted hastily, “ I know of old your gal
lant speeches, so I do not take them for
more than they are meant. But fancy
my position if some day I wero to take
a man at his word and entangle him in a
matrimonial engagement I Perhaps you
did not know, Mr. Hearing, that my un
cle only bequeathed his fortune to me
conditionally? If I marry an American
it is to revert to a distant cousin. My
uncle was bent upon mo having a Ger
man husband, and if I married a for
eigner I was to forfeit my inheritance.”
Ralph Dealing had paled suddenly,
and lie caught at tho branch of a tall
shrub as though ho sought its support.
“What a very absurd proposition?” ho
exclaimed. “It is no wonder, Miss
Schubert, that you have resisted the
pleading of so many suitors. A fortune
like yours is not to be thrown away for a
passing fancy. I was not aware that
you held it conditionally. If I were
only a German nobleman, now! But,
alius! I am only a poor barrister and u
free-born American.”
He laughed ; lmt there was something
in his voice that made Georgette’s heart
strings vibrate with pain.
He did not know, and she would not
have had him know, that her money
would have! icon as nothing in the bal
ance against his lovo had she only been
sure of it.
“Shall wo go out on tho lake?” he
asked, changing the subject so quickly
that her heart gave a despairing quiver.
It was only her money, then, after all,
that he had courted so assiduously.
“No,” she answered, shivering slight
ly. “I think it is too damp this even
ing. Besides, the lilies are closing. I
will get some in the morning.”
When they came into the house I saw
by her face that something had hap
pened.
That night, after Ralph and his moth
er had gone, she came into my room
and said simply ;
“There is no room for doubt. I have
weighed him iu the balance and found
him wanting.”
Three days later she received a letter
from Ralph Hearing, from Which this is
all extract;
“ I love you with my whole heart,
Georgette; but I am neither foolish nor
selfish enough to ask yon to marry me
when l know what you would sacrifice
liy so doing.
“At first I was afraid to ask you be
cause 1 feared you might misconstrue
my motives, and my love for you caused
me to shrink from the imputation that
might have fallen upon me.
“Then when I learned that by marry
ing me you wolud loso the fortune you
were horn to enjoy, I saw how wrong it
would be for me to expect or ask it,
though that you would for one moment
listen to my suit is nothing more limn
presumption on my part."
She gave mo this with a sarcastic
smile.
“What does he mean about your
losing your fortune?" I asked when I
lmd read it.
" I told him that mv uncle’s will was
made iu my favor conditionally, and that
if I failed to marry a German I would
forfeit my fortune.”
“ You never told me that! ” I cried.
"No? I uover enrod to speak of it.
1 cannot bear to have questions of in
terest and matrimony so closely con
nected.”
“Rut," I ventured to observe, “in
that ease it would Imvc boon folly for
you to marry Ralph Hearing. He has
his mother to support, and ho hasn’t a
penny in the world.”
“Do you think I would have cared
for that! ” she said, with a passionate
hurst of tears. “If he had loved me f
would have gone with him to the ends
of the earth and lived upon bread aud
water. ”
1 laid my hand gently an her glossy
hair.
“ 1 tear little Jet! ’’ I murmured, and
I felt that I could have killed Ralph
Hearing.
Three months passed and there earn*
a change—oh, such a change! -in
Georgette. Hhe had born ill, and I hough
the doctor said she hod pratically re
covered, sho did not seem to gain a par
tide of strength from dny to day. 11
was with terrible agony that I saw al
last that if there were not a speedy im
provement her days on earth wore num
bered.
One morning when we were out driv
ing under the doctor’s orders she re
quested to ho taken to tho office of Mr.
Fa pshaw.
“ I am going to make my will, Emily,”
she said calmly, and I could not answer
her.
When wo called at tho lawyer’s office
we were shown into the little room where
ti gentleman was seated writing. It was
too lute to retreat when I saw that it was
Ralph Hearing.
He greeted ns affably, hut I saw a look
of horror on his face as ho noted Jet’s
altered appearance.
“ Mr. Fanslmw is in his privato office,
Miss Behulx'rt,” he sail!, opening the
door for her; “ walk iu.”
“ I will call vim presently/' she said,
ami then left mo alone with Ralph Deni
ing.
As tho door domed after her ho turned
quickly ami strode toward me, grasping
me fiercely by the arm.
“What is the matter with her?” hi
asked iu a bourse voice.
I shook off Ins hand rudely anil
answered with great bitterness :
“ A broken heart, Mr. Hearing.”
I could not refrain from saying il,
though r knew Jet would be augry.
“ What do you mean?”
He seemed to be choking with his own
words.
“Ought you to ask such a question ?”
I said pointedly.
“For God’s sake !” he cried passion
atolv, “have, done with this. You know
you saw that I loved her- worshiped
the ground sho trod on. I would give
my life for her this instant. What is the
matter, Miss Emily?"
“Do you mean what you say, Ralph
Hearing?”
“As heaven is above us, I do.”
“Then,” I said joyously, “it is all a
hideous misunderstanding. Georgette
loves you. It is that that is killing
her.”
If ever a face was transfigured with
rupture, his woh that, instant.
“Are you telling me the truth?” ho
cried.
"Yes, J am,” I answered; “hut gi
away before sho names out; she, cannot
bear to see you now. I will prepare her
for your coming to-night.”
He obeyed me, anil it was not until
evening that Jet saw him in hor own
little sitting-room. When she, came in,
looking so frail, yet so lovely, Ralph
could not utter a word. He simply
opened his arms, and the next instant
her bead was on liis breast.
“Darling,” he whispered, “I told yon
the truth. Your fortune was nothing to
me; but how could I ask you to give it
up for the sake of sharing my poverty ?”
“Your poverty was nothing to me,”
she said, in a voice that thrilled with
happiness; “but you never gave me a
chance of saying so.”
“And will you—can you—oh, Georg
ette, my darling ! it will be a terrible
sacrifice !”
“You say so?" sho cried reproach
fully, “yet you profess to lovo mol
Tell me, Ralph, if it were ten times as
much, would not you give it up gladly
if you wero in my position?”
“Dearest,” he said, kissing her with
tender reverence, “I would give up tho
world for you !”
“Besides,” she added, with an en
chanting smile. “I told a white"lie,
Ralph. Canyon forgive me for it? I
was trying to weigh your love in the
balance with my money, and how sadly
I miscalculated the result! But—it is
only half of my fortune that I forfeit in
marrying you. I think we can still
manage to live on half. Don’t you
think we can, Ralph ? ”
He looked at her in a kind of delirium.
“ What what” lie stammered.
“Don’t you understand?” she said
putting both her arms around his nock,
“ When I marry you I lose half my for
tune, but there is still a goodly portion
left to me. I would not have any of it,
though, Ralph, if 1 had to live without
you.”
Real tears started to his eyes and he
gathered her close to his heart.
Win ■ti 1 came in after awhile Jot was
seated on the sofa and ho was sealed
dose beside hor.
Her cheeks were crimson and her eyes
shone like still's.
“I don’t know what the doctor will
ay to this," I said, shaking my head du
biously.
“We won 1 need any doel-or now, Miss
Emily,” Ralph said with a joyous laugh.
“ I have taken the eoiftract off his
hands.”
Ho fulfilled it, too; three months
later, whoa Jet was married her health
was better than it had ever boon before.
The inscription in her wedding-ring
was in Hebrew, and somewhat different
from the judgment which Belshazzar
saw written on tho wall.
It signified iu our language ;
“Thou hast been weighed in the bal
and found true.”
What lie Meant.
In a suit before a Detroit Justice tho
other day the defendant desired to prove
that his financial standing was solid,
and when his witness had taken the
stand and testified that the defendant
enjoyed the reputation of promptly pay
ing his debts, the opposing counsel
naked:
“Mr. Blank, you say you consider Mr.
White perfectly good?”
“Yes, sir.”
“If lie owed you 850 you’d expect to
receive it when due ?”
“Yes, sir.”
“If 1m should ask you for tho loiiu of
825 you’d hand it right out?”
“Y-yes, sir.”
“Very well -very well. Mr. White,
ask the witness for a loan of 825.”
‘Mr. Blank, loan me tho sum named,”
said the defendant, as he reached out his
hand.
Mr. Blank grow red and pale by turns,
hitched around like a hoy on a carpet
tack, and finally replied:
“What I meant to say was that I’d
lend you 825 on a first mortgage on
about 82,000 worth of r< al estate ! Make
nut your papers I"— Detroit Free. Ficus.
The Nature of Dipflicria.
Dr. H. C. Wood, professor vf experi
mental pathology in the University of
Pennsylvania, a member of the commis
sion appointed by tho United States
Government to make researches into the
nature of diptheria, after h iving spent
several years in the work, recently gave
the results of his investigation in a lec
ture in Pennsylvania. He mild that dip
theria, croup and gangrene are identical
diseases; that diptheria is liy no means
limited to what wo see in the pharynx;
as any abraded surface may be trans
formed with a genuine case of diptheria,
that it is a local and not a constitutional
disease; that any sore throat may become
dipthcritic without any contagion; that
dipthoritic poison injected into tho blood
is perfectly harmless, it first being nec
cssiry to make a wound and keep it in a
state of irritation before dipthcritic poi
son introduced into it could produce tho
desired effect; that tho disease abounds
ii low, swampy places; that diptheria
u..rl micrococci, minute vogolahle fungi,
are inseparably associated “no micro
cocci, no diptheria”—said the doctor;
that the dipthoritic poison cannot affect
a healthy person; thoro must bo an
abraded surface, and no healthy child
can get it unless it has a sore throat al
ready; that, in his opinion, micrococci
do not produce the initial lesion; that
any sore throat may end in diptheria,
and the line cannot ho drawn where sore
throat ends and diptheria begins; aud
finally, that diptheria is a spontaneous
disease, and not infectious, strictly
speaking.
An Indian View or While Politics.
In an illustrated article on the Fran
ciscan Missions of California, in the
June Century, one effect of white exam
ple upon tho Indian is described thus:
“In a curious pamphlet left by one of
the old friars, Father Boscana, is told a
droll story of the logical inferences some
of them drew from the political situa
tions among their supposed betters. It
wns a band of Ban Diego Indians. When
they heard that tho Spanish viceroy in
the city of Mexico had been killed, and
a Mexican made emperor in his place,
they forthwith made a great feast,
burned up their chief, and elected anew
one in his stead. To the stringent ro
proofs of tho horrible friars they made
answer: ‘Have you not done the samo
in Mexico? You say ysur king was
not good, and you killed him. Well,
our eaptian was not good, and we burned
him. If tho new one turns out had, wo
will burn him, too,’ —a memorable in
stance of the superiority of example to
precept. ”
A young city fellow, diTK.- ed in a fault
less suit and a pair of shoes that tapered
to a point in the most modern style, was
visiting in a rural district. A bright
little boy looked him all over until his
eyes rested on tin ■ shoes. Ho looked
at his own chubby feet and then at his
visitor’s, and then looking up, said:
“Mister, is njl your toes cut off but
ono? Louise Me Journal,
NO 25.
THE MII.K MERCHANT.
An liualei-ii ruble lll. n l.lvr llmikny In li.
A young Moslem Arab from the Gulf
of Persia, came to Bombay to make his
fort-uno. Ho engaged in llm ancient
trade of selling milk. Now, London or
Melbourne, Bombay or New York, ns far
as the sale of milk is concerned, is the
sumo place. Our Moslem friend, af
ter saving his morning prayers and
bowing devoutodly to tho East, relig
iously watered his milk, putting in as
much water as there was milk. By dint
of perseverance, frugal living, devout
praying, and watering tho milk, 1m accu
mulated fifty Turkish, or say English,
pounds. lie then resolved to return to
his native Arabia Felix, buy goats and
sheep and live happily. Changing his
money into gold, ho secreted his little
bag of treasure about him, and went on
hoard ono of tho many native Arab crafts
that ply between Bombay aud the Gull
of Persia. The happy young Arab oc
casionally wont to a lonely placo on the
craft, told and retold his treasure, play
fully tossed his savings up in the air,
caught thorn again, and felt himself in
an earthly Paradise.
Now, thoro hljfiponed to lie a playful
but mischievous monkey on board, the
pet of tho Arab captain and his crew.
This littlo imp had often observed the
young Arab’s occupation, and felt an
irresistible desire to have a littlo play
with tho coin. Watching his opportun
ity, tho monkey snatched the littlo hug
of gold from the unlucky Arab, and ran
with it, where no ono could easily get at
him, to tho top gallant mast head. The
frantic cries of tho Arab brought tho
whole orew to his aid. But alas I the
monkey kept tossing the coin in the air,
and, not able to catch it, it either fell
overboard or on deck. At last the
monkey got tired of tossing the coin,
and dropped the hag with hut a few
sovereigns in it. After a diligent search
the unfortunate Arab found that all hie
earthly wealth had dwindled down to
just half its original amount. The
other half had been tossed overboard
liy the monkey. With streaming eyes
and a heart bowed down in sorrow, the
Aral) turned his head to tho East and
said: “Oh ! Allah, all thy ways are just.
An hour ago my whole worldly posses
sion was exactly the combination of hull
milk and half water. Thy retribution
h i., overtaken me. What was repre
h.mted by milk I still have, and what
was represented ,by water has gone back
to water. Blessed is the name of
Allah !”
Oil Region Reminiscences.
When Roberts’s glycerine factory at
Titusville, I’enn., blow up, away back
somewhere in the up-crook excitement
of I lie sixties, a hole was left in tho
ground large enough to bury tho largest
church in Youngstown, O. Tho shock
prostrated pedestrians who wore two
miles distant, and the report was plainly
heard forty miles away. It will never be
known just what caused the accident, as
the fom’ workmen wore never found.
The most remarkable feature of this ex
plosion was this: Every loose or semi
buried pebble and rock that lay in the
fields surrounding the factory was lifted
from its resting place and shifted exactly
eight inches eastward.
I u the year 1878 a nitro-glycorinn mag
azine exploded near Bradford, Penn.,
and to this day it is not known whether
five men or seven were killed. In those
days “moon-lighters” abounded, and as
they did ail their work undercover of
darkness in order to keep screened from
the eyes of Roberts’s paid “spotters,’
they bought their glycerine in the night
timo. One night a couple of gentry
thought they would steal enough glycer
ine to “shoot" a well, and they repaired
to the above mentioned magazine on
Tuna Creek. They tried to burst the
door by exploding a small portion of the
stuff in the lock, but from some cause
the explosion did not take place. While
they were still at work trying to burglar
ize tho place, one of tho ownors of the
magazine and several other men came
along. As they advanced tho would-be
burglars retreated, and in a minute or
two the explosion occurred, probably on
account of the action of the key in the
lock that bail been filled with tho explo
sive material. A few scraps of flesh
wero found, hut nothing that would give
any clow to the identity of the unfortu
nate parties. A day or two afterward
the trunk of a man’s body was found 300
yards away, beyond a hill seven hundred
feet high, showing that tho body had
been carried up into the air probably n
thousand feet, falling at the other side
of the mountain. There wero several
men missing about that timo, but tho
exact number that perished was never
determined.
a double discount.
The Richmond, Va., Religious Her
ald, say: We heard Brother Holmes of
Savannah, Git., tell a good joke on a
Richmond hotel man. He said that,
when Dr. Price, of Wales, was attending
our June meetings, some years ago, he
slopped at Ford’s Hotel, and when he
asked for his hill, Ford said: “Wo
knock off half the price, as you are a
minister.” Dr. Price thanked him, and
asked: “ What do you take off for edi
tor i? ’’ “ One half for editors, too,” was
the prompt reply. “Well,” continued
the doctor. “I am editor as well as
preacher; so I am entitled to two
halves, and Ihus my account is settled.”
The hotel man laughed and let it go
: o. I
WIT AM) WISDOM.
Tire roason men sucoood who mind
their own business, is boenuso thoro/s so
littlo oomjiotition.
A oiiKST in a St. Albans hotel was ob
served trying to pick up tho wick of an
unsatisfactory gas burner.
An bxohanob says: “What is iu a
name?” Well, ask your bank directors
to discount your note aud you will find
out.
Ik you ask a bald-headed man how he
would prefer to he upholstered, lie’ll
likely express a desire for mo’-liair on
the top of his head.
“ I’m saddest when I sing,” lamented
tho poet, but if ho could liavo sung foi
85,000 a night he would probably have
been saddest when ho oouliln’t sing.
“ I love that man with all my heart,"
said a Philadelphia girl, “hut the trouble
is that if T answer yes everybody will say
that I married for money. He ih mi
editor.”
Colorado is judged in tho East by its
bonanza kings. Bother! “Wo think so
littlo of tliom here," says tho Denver
Tribune, “that we send them to the
Senate.”
"Win 1 are politicians always talking
about the party platform, my dear ?”
queried Mrs. Rattler of her husband.
“Looking for tho‘deals,’ my love," re
joined Rattler.
“Ann you any relation to my sister?
He blushed and stammered, until llm
young lady, taking pity on him, solved
the matter by saying: “No, but lin’d
like to he—wouldn’t you, Alfred ?”
“Kind words cost nothing and go a
long distance." Wo know a letter eon
taining a few that went from Now York
to Philadelphia, and then camo hack to
tlio sender’s wifo and caused a divorce
unit.
“ Tun last word ’’ is tho most danger
oils of infernal machines; and tho hits
hand and wifo should no more light to
got it than they would struggle for the
possession of a lighted bombshell.
Douglas Jerrold.
An article in a Chicago paper is
headed, “Kissed by hor husband.” A
Chicago man who has read it writes us
that although it is rhetorically a lino
piece of work tho effect is spoiloil by its
utter lack of probability.
It is feared that tho great Brooklyn
Bridge will ho n failure because the
footpath is in the middle, and the Amer
ican citizen is thus deprived of tho pleas
lire of leaning over tho outer railing and
spitting on tho ferryboats.
"Beo pardon, sir, hut could—hie
you tell me which is tho opposito side of
the street?” “Why, that side, sir”
(pointing across). “Mosli oblish, I was
sever there jus’ now, and asked ’nother
gem’l’n which wins opps’ sido, an’ ho said
this was.”
A congressman's wife wont to tho
Sergeant-at Arms of the Senate, just be
fore Congress adjourned, and hogged for
one of the Senator's desks. Bright sent
her to the “property-man,” who has a
perfect furniture store down in tho collar
somewhere. To him said tho persistent
“Mrs. Representative”: “I want a Sena
tor’s desk ; I want to send it home and
have it put in the library to surprise my
husband when he goes hack. You see,”
sho added in a hurst of confidence, see
ing that tlie furniture man didn't look
particularly cross, “wo go out on the 411 ■
of March, and xve want to get as much
out of it as possible.” She didn’t get
that desk.
A Day Dream liifcrru
Tho cry of “Roiul I road!” caused a
business man to jump aside just in timo
to avoid being run down liy a sled ill one
of the city suburbs. The boys'wero
making the most of the snow. As the
weary man picked his way carefully up
the slippery ascent recollections begar
to crowd upon his mind of tho time
when he was owner of a sled which
could pass anything on tho hill. Tho
lines of care iu his face began to relax as
the symmetry of the proportions oMliat
sled and the name cut on the bottom
hoard with au old jacknife loomed up
through the intervening years. Then
there came into his mind another pic
ture of a girl, xvhose bine scarf matched
the color of her eyes, and the rose of
whose complexion deepened a littlo as
she picked up her skirts and sat timidly
down upon the sled. He remembered
what he said:
“You needn’t he afraid, Noll; she’ll
hold a ton !”
The weight of that little hand upon
nis shoulder still has power to stir his
pulses. As the iron-shod runners shot
swiftly over the snow the grasp tight
ened and an arm was thrown around his
neck with a little cry of alarm. Tho
sled was now speeding liko a greyhound,
and swaying from side to side. Another
arm was thrown around his neck, and he
heard her cry in affright:
“O—h—h! sto—op h- e—-r, John!”
The agonized entreaty failed to influ
ence him, as he was satisfied with the
condition of affairs, and only when the
bottom of the hill was readied was tho
willing prisoner released. Then the
walk up tho hill in tho moonlight, with
the eager and nipping air echoing with
the merry laughter and shouts of his com
panions. Perhaps as the moon slipped
under a cloud—
The feet of tho day dreamer wore sud
denly knocked from under him at this
point, anil as he assumed a sitting pos
ture lie heard the derisive shout:
“Old duffer, why don’t you keep out
of the road ?”
A Newspaper’s Money.— The Nash
ville (Tenn.) American has got itself
into trouble with a young lady of Ala
bama, by profession, as described in her
bill of complaint, “ a reciter and reader
of selections from standard authors and
a tragedienne in dramatic scenes.” It
seems that the American ridiculed her
public performances aud described hor
as a Bmall woman with a tremendous
nose and very homely. For all of which
and more she sues the American for
825,000 damages. The American ex
plains that the eriticisms were contained
in letters from its correspondents in New
Orleans and Mobile, and that one of
these correspondents is a lady, and the
American, while it would not presume
to venture an opinion about a lady's per
sonal appearance, would never, under
any circumstances, have interfered with
the divine right of one woman to speak
her mind upon the personal and mental
claims of another.